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title: "Ratking Kindle Edition"
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# Ratking Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Tangled "Tail" of Intrigue
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2002*

Dibdin's fifty year old Aurelio Zen is trapped like a rat within the law enforcement tunnel of the labyrinth that is the Italian bureaucracy. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time has resulted in a forgotten desk job in Rome where Venetian Zen stares at a phone that never rings. When he is suddenly summonsed to Perugia in the lush Umbrian countryside and placed as lead inspector in a notable electronics magnate's kidnapping, he gets the sense, as we do, that something other than his immediate involvement in the investigation is at work here.  Nevertheless, Zen does his job and as he gathers his information, we observe Zen's world of family, friends and Italy from Zen's cynical eyes. After playing the scapegoat once, Zen is wary; he has learned his lesson and has learned it well.  Understanding the system as painfully and personally as he has, Zen adapts, manipulates and manages to sever the rat tails of the investigation's ratking while simultaneouly reconnecting himself to the tangle of tails which form the ratking of the Italian Law Enforcement machine.The mystery here, is secondary to Zen's tainted vision of the world. It acts a conduit to expose Zen's feelings about the present and the past.  His mantra, if he has one, could be paraphrased: A man must compromise in order to survive.  Dibdin's humorous portrayals of the Italian populace of Umbria, most notably, the Miletti siblings and the Naopolitan driver, are priceless.  The reader gets a real sense of the city state mentality of Italy, where there are definite prejudices between Northerners and Southerners.  Dibdin's countless behind-the-scenes suggestions of corruption, wire-tapping and self-sustaining acts of betrayal seem too farfetched to be thought solely fictional.The tone of the story is cynical and dark which makes for some tedious reading.  The reader finds himself in his own rat tail tangle of misunderstanding.  Zen, a reluctant realist, must deal with an American girlfriend who does not understand his need to keep the details of his relationship with her a secret from his live-in mother.  He's got some issues with his father that come to light while he ponders the ties between the Miletti patriarch and his children.  Along with the bungled career, there is an ex-wife, an abandoned home in Venice and a lifetime of smaller regrets. In short, he is no designer detective in an Armani suit with wise-guy retorts; he is real and has real problems.As the first in a series of Zen mysteries, I think this one a worthy introduction and I look forward to seeing how the character manages to survive in the murky environment of real life.

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    How Very Appropriate, If Unpleasant
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014*

Zen is the ultimate outsider, a man for whom nothing seems to go right even before it goes wrong.  In this first book of the Zen series we can see a pattern emerge which will be developed and elaborated upon in this book and those that follow. Zen is assigned a case concerning the kidnapping of a very unsavory but powerful business tycoon.  Perhaps what is more unsavory than Signore Miletti is his family and his retainers.The "ratking" refers to a tangle of rats bound by their tails through circumstance that operates in a symbiotic manner in order to survive.  Mr. Dibdin uses this analogy to explore not only the Miletti famly but Zen's entire world, his mother, girlfriend, fellow detectives, the political system, indeed the entire society in which he must live.  If not for the worldly resignation of Zen and his lack of interest in his career this would be truly a rather too bleak world to bear or read about.But it is Zen's perceptions and realism that keep driving him on and his own self-preservation.  The psychological dimensions of the story are immense and yet do not get in the way a a tautly written murder mystery.  The cast of characters is lush with villains, neurotics, freebooters, venal degenerates, incompetents, all living in a world of lush luxury.While Zen himself is not total anti-hero and is truly misanthropic, he is an admirable realist or as Wycherley wrote, a "plain dealer.  This is a thinking man's mystery.

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    The odds are seriously stacked against this cop
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014*

Aurelio Zen is in disgrace – demoted to an administrative job because of a high-profile kidnapping case that went bad bad. But when a very rich businessman is kidnapped in Perugia, Zen is the only man available to send to help the local cops.But the local cops do everything they can to undermine him. The. Investigating magistrate wants to use Zen for his own political ends. Even the children of the victim refuse to cooperate with Zen or any other policeman. They're behaving so strangely, Zen wonders if they really want the old man back alive.What I found interesting was how ineffectual Zen seemed through most of the book. Others get the better of him at every turn. He's anything but a superhero. Only when it seems too late does Zen show us he can be as crafty and tricky as his enemies.I'm curious to see what Zen will be like in the next book, so I’ll be continuing with the series.In this book, Perugia with its medieval walls and houses, ancient Etruscan and Roman stonework, climbing stairways and uphill roads makes an exotic setting.

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